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Post by Wolfgang on May 16, 2019 16:12:33 GMT -5
Why does Hawaii look like blood splatter? LOL! Carleton College in Minnesota doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is Kenyon over Oberlin in Ohio. I had never even heard of Kenyon until this past year. Also, in case anyone is wondering, that orange partial logo of California is of Joe's Refrigeration and HVAC Technology Institute (Pasadena, CA), my alma mater. Suck it, Stanford! At Stanford we admit we suck (in relation to Cal Tech), and besides, you have a more powerful arsenal, a cannon. My Science Olympiad students try to get into Cal Tech, but the door is locked. Ok, one got in this year, but many more have matriculated @ Stanford. This is when it's not erect and in its unexcited state.
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Post by notwvb on May 16, 2019 16:13:20 GMT -5
Alabama hard to get into? Anybody can get in there.................all you have to do is sign up. You have to have the ability to sign something? There ya go, hardest in the state! Just call ahead. BAMA will leave the light on for ya.
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Post by hammer on May 16, 2019 16:27:06 GMT -5
Last time I was @ Cal Tech, the cannon was excited ... it must have absorbed many megajoules of energy to jump to such an excited state
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Post by hammer on May 16, 2019 16:34:40 GMT -5
You have to have the ability to sign something? There ya go, hardest in the state! Just call ahead. BAMA will leave the light on for ya. Bama has some of the best memorabilia. When you play for the National Championship every year what else would you expect ... Bama logo valve caps for your tires. BTW, very impressed with the Notre Dame (Hames) bookstore -- loved the toilet seats on the 2nd floor.
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Post by Phaedrus on May 16, 2019 20:40:08 GMT -5
The problem with EE as an example is that computers are sort of an unexpected pregnancy that happened during a three-way between EE and her lovers Logic and Math. So little Computer Science grew up in EE's house, and most of the people who come knocking at EE's door these days are really more interested in taking Computer Science out on a date than they are in visiting EE herself. So when, for instance, MIT has the top-ranked EE program and 1/3 of the undergrads are in that department, is it really because of the EE like Phaedrus does, or is it because of the CS part of "EECS"? Georgia Tech separated out the Computer Science part from ECE. The C part of ECE refers to hardware. There is a College of Computing now. Kind of solved the problem.
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Post by trainermch on May 16, 2019 21:37:00 GMT -5
What is that SC one? Clemson? The SC one is Clemson. Its wikipedia page shows a purplish logo but the graphic design is the same. Thanks. I saw the orange, but no tiger paw.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 17, 2019 2:11:48 GMT -5
Phaedrus was listing schools which he had some sort of personal connection with plus a few defaults. He can't be wrong because they're his personal opinions not facts. To me, he's missing a whole buttload of good EE schools but, again, that's because I have my own opinions. Anyway, no one on VT really cares about EE. I mean capacitors, diodes, and math. Ugh... ... CalTech I feel is more geared towards the fundamental sciences, chemistry, physics, and they are training future Nobel Prize winners than engineers. Well, I think the view of Caltech by outsiders may be what you said -- more theory and science and less practical engineering -- but it's not true. Yes, a lot of classes are theory-heavy and yes, a lot of undergrads get lots of opportunities to do research work (vs. engineering work) and yes, there's a lot more math than is warranted. On the other hand, I designed and built more than half a dozen MAJOR systems from scratch, especially in the analog circuits and digital electronics classes. This is more than I've heard goes on at other schools. I'm not talking about a lab class where you're tasked to build something specific in lab as an exercise. I'm talking about designing something on your own and building it yourself. Often, the things you were designing were way ahead of whatever lesson/chapter you're in so you have to actually teach yourself stuff long before the professor teaches it. I built something as "small" as a high power UHF (450MHz) transceiver to complex calculators. Sometimes, I spent an entire term designing and building two different systems. No sleep. No social life. Just insanity. And then when the term was over, another term began and I'm designing and building something else. If our projects were novel enough, we were also encouraged to file our own patents (our professors and grad assistants were very helpful). (There were certain limitations if the invention was Caltech work-related and we had to contact the Technology Transfer peeps.) Oh, and we were able to do this because our technical writing class taught us how to write a complete patent application -- from drawings to specifications to claims. The only obstacle was money. Some of my classmates even studied for the Patent Bar, passed it, and became official Patent Agents (which means they can take on clients and charge them for their time and draft patent applications for them and prosecute those applications through the U.S. Patent Office.) upon graduation even though they didn't ultimately pursue a career as Patent Agents. The benefit of being a Patent Agent is that they didn't need to hire anyone to prosecute their patent applications for them; they could do it themselves for free! From design to filing a patent app to obtaining a real patent! Upon graduation, I felt like I could design and build almost anything by myself from scratch. Of course, the prototype may not work...
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Post by future on May 17, 2019 11:20:55 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/us/politics/college-scholarships-tax-increases.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=HomepageA Scandal on its own! WASHINGTON â A little-noticed provision in President Trumpâs sprawling new tax law is treating middle- and low-income college students as if they are trust-fund babies, taxing sizable financial aid packages at a rate first established 33 years ago to prevent wealthy parents from funneling money to their children to lower their tax burdens. Higher-education leaders are calling on Congress to fix the provision, which drastically raised the tax rate on so-called unearned income for children with assets and young adults in school. Students with large financial aid packages are finding their nontuition assistance for items such as room and board taxed by as much as 37 percent, even if their family income tax rates are much lower. The impact on full-time undergraduate and graduate students under the age of 24 went largely unnoticed until the waning weeks of tax season. But word is spreading. About 1.3 million undergraduate students and 15,000 graduate students have scholarships and grant aid that cover nontuition expenses. Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, a Washington trade group representing 1,700 college and university presidents, wrote to Democratic and Republican leaders of the tax-writing House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees, urging them to âswiftly correct a mistake.â Mr. Mitchell wrote that the portion of college scholarships subject to the tax is usually awarded to students from families of little means. Among those students are college athletes awarded full scholarships, many of whom come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. âNow, those students are being taxed at the same rate as wealthy individuals,â Mr. Mitchell wrote. The so-called kiddie tax rate was established specifically to address generational transfers used by rich parents to lower their tax burdens, but in the name of tax-code simplification, the Republican tax law expanded its reach. It is now hitting tribal funds dispensed to Native American children and young adults, and the families of service members who died in combat, some of whom saw hefty tax bills for their childrenâs survivor benefits this past spring.
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Post by vbprisoner on May 17, 2019 12:27:51 GMT -5
Wolfgang seems more like a Sheldon than a Wolowitz!
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Post by Wolfgang on May 17, 2019 12:30:58 GMT -5
No, thatâs a competition from a specific course ME72. I never took that course. There were other courses that held competitions and other non-course competitions, but I was too busy with my own shiite. Also, I donât remember ME72 competition being around when I was there. But often, I had such tunnel vision on my own projects that I was oblivious to things that happened around me as I walked to and from school from my home in San Marino.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 17, 2019 12:37:01 GMT -5
Wolfgang seems more like a Sheldon than a Wolowitz! I was more like Leonard who got the hot blonde chick and was self-sufficient and more down-to-earth. Also, less nerdy as I didnât do all the D&D, Star Trek, Star Wars crap.
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Post by vbprisoner on May 17, 2019 12:40:50 GMT -5
Wolfgang seems more like a Sheldon than a Wolowitz! I was more like Leonard who got the hot blonde chick and was self-sufficient and more down-to-earth. Also, less nerdy as I didnât do all the D&D, Star Trek, Star Wars crap. LOL, yeah keep telling yourself that Wolfie... Off the Net is littered with Sheldon Wolfgang threads and posts!
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Post by Wolfgang on May 17, 2019 12:49:17 GMT -5
Also, all the Big Bang characters are working researchers and engineers at various Caltech labs. Theyâre not students there. And Sheldon is borderline Aspergerâs and Wolowitz lives (lived) with his mother.
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Post by mikegarrison on May 17, 2019 13:24:51 GMT -5
... CalTech I feel is more geared towards the fundamental sciences, chemistry, physics, and they are training future Nobel Prize winners than engineers. Well, I think the view of Caltech by outsiders may be what you said -- more theory and science and less practical engineering -- but it's not true. Yes, a lot of classes are theory-heavy and yes, a lot of undergrads get lots of opportunities to do research work (vs. engineering work) and yes, there's a lot more math than is warranted. On the other hand, I designed and built more than half a dozen MAJOR systems from scratch, especially in the analog circuits and digital electronics classes. This is more than I've heard goes on at other schools. I'm not talking about a lab class where you're tasked to build something specific in lab as an exercise. I'm talking about designing something on your own and building it yourself. Often, the things you were designing were way ahead of whatever lesson/chapter you're in so you have to actually teach yourself stuff long before the professor teaches it. I built something as "small" as a high power UHF (450MHz) transceiver to complex calculators. Sometimes, I spent an entire term designing and building two different systems. No sleep. No social life. Just insanity. And then when the term was over, another term began and I'm designing and building something else. What you are describing is what is now called "maker culture", and it happens everywhere. It's more about the interests of the people involved than the school. It also has only indirect connection to professional engineering, which doesn't actually resemble "making" very much.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 17, 2019 15:00:53 GMT -5
Yeah, you're right. What does Caltech know about engineering. LOL!
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